Boston, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1917 1986

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Boston between 2006 and 2014, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Rocky Fork Point
• Stringtown
• Berrysville
• Highland Holiday
• Marshall
• New Petersburg

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Museums hold 1,503 specimens collected within 10 miles of Boston between 1876 and 1975: 1,027 Animalia, 375 Fungi, 88 Plantae, 10 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14505, 14519, 14521 and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Aecidium asterum Schwein.	1895	F.L. Stevens
	Puccinia podophylli Schwein.	1895	F. L. Stevens	Highland County
	Hericium coralloides (Scop.) Pers.	1939	Cooke, William Bridge	Seven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary)
	Cordyceps militaris (L.) Link	1876	W. B. Cooke	Fort Hill State Memorial
	Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1880	not recorded	Lees Creek, Leesburg, North America
	Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)	1881	S.M. Taggert	Lees Creek, Leesburg, North America
	Andropogon gerardi Vitman	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Paint Creek
	Asplenium rhizophyllum L.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	"Caves" Paint Creek
	Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) P.Beauv.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Paint Creek
	Cardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Paint Creek
	Cinna arundinacea L.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Panel Creek
	Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Careo, Paint Creek

All 1,503 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Boston: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Highland County

The National Weather Service names Boston in 14 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Highland County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064466. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.